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Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco$150k–$250kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join a seed-stage AI integration platform as an early engineering hire, owning the agentic platform and infrastructure end-to-end alongside founders. You'll architect core systems that transform plain English requirements into deployed, production-ready integration code while establishing engineering standards for future team growth.

What you'll do

  • Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end
  • Establish engineering patterns and standards for future hires to build upon
  • Ship features to production continuously in close collaboration with founders
  • Shape the system architecture and technical direction in your first year
  • Build and maintain real production systems across the full stack
  • Use AI coding tools effectively while ensuring production quality standards

What they're looking for

  • TypeScript
  • Full-stack development (agent orchestration, infrastructure, runtimes)
  • Production systems ownership and deployment
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • React
  • AI coding tools proficiency

Benefits

  • Significant early-stage equity opportunity
  • Shape company technical direction from day one
  • Work directly with founding team
  • Visa sponsorship available for O-1 visa candidates
  • High-impact role establishing engineering foundation
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Clera

Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.

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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a production system you owned end-to-end—what was your biggest challenge and how did you solve it?
  • Describe your experience at an early-stage startup. How did you balance shipping quickly with maintaining code quality?
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